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Luke 14:1–24

4/21/2012

 
Click here to read today's passage on Bible Gateway.

Humility
"Jesus then pursues other related issues (vv. 7–14). This passage, also unique to Luke, highlights the importance of genuine humility. The imagery recalls Proverbs 25:6–7, where the author writes that it is better for the host to call someone up than to assert oneself to try to get his attention. Humility means not reflecting social snobbery, not exalting oneself, and not thinking only of one’s own gain. God honors those who have friends on both ends of the social ladder.
    This parable is a poignant story of genuinely relating in a needy world. Jesus tells it because the guests at the Pharisee’s table are trying to find places of honor. At an ancient meal, the table was usually in the shape of a U, and the host sat at the base. The seats of honor were located next to him. Often the most honored guests arrived the latest." [1]

Humility is an interesting topic, because I think that there is a lot of false humility that goes on in the church.  Humility is not denying your talents and skills, but using them for the glory of God and the service of others.  It is putting who you are in perspective.  C.S. Lewis has a short, pithy quote on this:

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less." [1] (paraphrased)

[1] Darrell L. Bock, The NIV Application Commentary: Luke (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996), 392.
[2] C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 114.
Andrei
4/21/2012 05:40:13 pm

Word; that's a good quote. Praying for genuine humility...

I looked up the C.S. Lewis quote and found this quote that is supposed to be by Abraham Lincoln?

'We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.' - Abraham Lincoln

Greg
4/22/2012 09:20:10 am

Great quote. I love Abe!


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